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OAKESDALE — The Oakesdale Nighthawks punched their ticket to state Thursday, Nov. 2, as they defeated the DeSales Irish in straight sets to advance to the district championship match. Set scores were all in favor of Oakesdale: 25-15, 25-10, 25-17. With the win, Oakesdale automatically qualified for the WIAA State 1B Tournament. with the first round starting Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Yakima. In the first set of the game, the Nighthawks jumped to a quick 4-1 lead, before letting the Irish back into the set, trailing by three. Oakesdale would then g...
COLFAX — In a season where the Colfax football team finished 2023 with the same record as when the season ended in 2022, the Bulldogs ended this season on an extreme high, shutting out the Tonasket Tigers. The final crossover game was played in Colfax on Saturday, Nov. 4. The Bulldogs defeated the Tigers 52-0, shutting out an opponent for the first time since 2021. Colfax scored 22 points in the first quarter, and added 30 more in the second to reach their 52 points. Colfax quarterback Seth Lustig got the scoring started with a 23-yard r...
DAYTON - Before the Oakesdale Nighthawks took to the court to compete for the district championship, an awards ceremony was held for the 1B District All-League Team. The ceremony was held in Dayton on Saturday, Nov.4, before the district championship game. St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse head coach Jenn Johnson and Oakesdale head coach McKinzie Turner both received Co-Coach Of The Year honors. All-League MVP was Oakesdale outside Payton Davis. There were six other Whitman County recognized with...
OAKESDALE - The Oakesdale Nighthawks star outside hitter Payton Davis has signed her official letter of intent to play volleyball for Central Washington University. Davis signed her letter in front of friends, family, and the entirety of the Oakesdale school district on Monday, Nov. 6. The event was also live streamed on the NFHS Network. Davis, a senior for the Nighthawks team, has been with Oakesdale since 8th grade. Davis led the team to back-to-back state championships, and is currently...
COLFAX - The district champion Colfax Bulldogs volleyball team are headed to state as the number three seed in the 2B WIAA State Playoff tournament. The Bulldogs earned their seed after defeating the Tonasket Tigers in straight sets in a winner-to-state match up. The game was played on Saturday, Nov. 4, and took place in Mead. Set scores in the match all comfortably favored the Bulldogs: 25-16, 25-10, 25-18. In the match, Ava Swan had 11 kills, two aces and six digs for the Bulldogs. Brynn...
DAYTON — The Oakesdale Nighthawks finished their district playoffs with a sweep against the Liberty Christian Patriots, giving them the district championship, and qualifying them for the state tournament. The Nighthawks played their district championship match in Dayton on Saturday, Nov. 4. Set scores in the district championship all favored the Nighthawks: 25-18, 25-18, 25-20. The Nighthawks started the first set up 5-1, then pushed their lead to 15-10 before the Patriots took a timeout. Oakesdale would go on a strong run to take the 22-17 l...
PASCO - At the conclusion of the 2023 cross country season for 1B/2B schools, the Garfield-Palouse Vikings boys and girls cross country team had a strong showing at the state meet. The WIAA state meet was held in Pasco on Saturday, Nov. 4. On the day, the girls team finished second overall, falling just short of first place Pope John Paul 2. For the boys team, they finished fifth. The overall boys winner was Valley Christian. In the meet, first place in the girls race was Ruby Henry of Pope...
PALOUSE — The Garfield-Palouse Vikings volleyball team ended their 2023 season by losing back-to-back district playoff games. They started their playoffs with a match against the Liberty Christian Patriots. The match was an away game for the Vikings, and took place on Monday, Oct. 30. The game lasted four sets, with the Patriots taking three-of-four to advance to the district semifinal match. Set scores saw the Vikings only win the third set: 17-25, 15-25, 26-24, 18-25. In the game, Sam Pfaff led the way with eight kills. Clare Bowechop had sev...
ROSALIA — The Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves played their final game of the 2023 season against the undefeated Liberty Christian Patriots, a game where the Timberwolves saw their seniors lose 92-6. For the Timberwolves, six seniors were recognized before the game began. The seniors were: Brody Mitchell, Isaac Bone, Tristan Harrington, John Paul Haxton, Ziyon Marsh, and Thomas Place. Bone has been with the team since his eighth grade year. Harrington has been playing football for eight years, he will attend a trade school for welding. Haxton has b...
DAYTON - The 1B State Volleyball Tournament will see two Whitman County teams represented. The St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles and Oakesdale Nighthawks both will play in Yakima. The Eagles qualified for state after defeating the Pomeroy Pirates in a winner-to-state match on Saturday, Nov. 4. The match was played in Dayton. Before the match against Pomeroy, the Eagles played the district semifinal match against the Liberty Christian Patriots. The game was played in Richland on Thursday, Nov....
Pullman Regional Hospital Wren Elliott Brown, a girl, was born Oct. 27, to parents Zane and Emma Brown, of Steptoe, Wash. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are Mike and Michelle Borwn, of Oakesdale. Mataernal Grandparents are Nate Klaveano, of Steptoe, and Lisa Klaveano, of Colfax. Wren joins sister Briar, 2, at home. Booker Clayton Helbling, a boy, was born Oct. 23, to parents Phillip and Kirsten Helbling, of Moscow. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are Jeff and Carla Helblling, of Moscow. Maternal Gran...
On October 31, 2023, Ted Deerkop (65) of Garfield, Wash., ended a brave and gritty fight against cancer. He was surrounded by family on a sunny day in his favorite month. He embraced October because of the annual occurrence of his life-altering passion project, ELK CAMP; and Halloween, with endless memories of pumpkin carvings, painting his kids' faces, and stealing all of their hard-earned candy (unless it was an Almond-Joy). On March 9th, 1958, Ted was born to Donald "Bud" and Betty (Brooks)...
Walter John Gray, 87, of Pullman, Wash., passed away October 31, 2023, at his Pullman home. Walt was born May 15, 1936, in Spokane, Wash., to John & Lilian Gray. He grew up in Washtucna, Wash., graduating from Washtucna High School in 1954. Walt received his degree in Farm Management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California in 1959. Walt married Orbie Baken in Lacrosse, Wash., on December 21, 1957. Following his time in the U.S. Army they made Washtucna their home where he farmed until...
Melvin Craig Gillespie passed away suddenly and peacefully Saturday, November 4, 2023, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax with his brother and sister-in-law by his side. He was born May 28, 1953, to H. Leroy and Olive Faye (Harris) Gillespie in Pullman, Wash. He graduated from Pullman High School in 1972 and attended Washington State University for three years. He and his brother, Bob, formed a farming partnership in 1975, and he continued actively farming until 2013, at which time he then helped out in any way that he could on the farm, from...
Don Deen, a long time Colfax resident, passed away at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane on November 4, 2023. He was 92 years old. A memorial service will take place on Thursday, November 16, 2023, at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax, Wash. A family burial will precede the service at the Colfax Cemetery. Don was born in Emmett, Idaho to Thomas and Maggie Deen. He was the fifth of thirteen children. After graduating from High School in 1949, Don enlisted in the United States Air Force...
Colfax Thursday, Nov. 9 Crispy chicken wrap with veggies, fruit salad, white chocolate chip cookies Monday, Nov. 13 Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, fruit salad, veggies, cookies Endicott Tuesday, Nov. 14 Turkey with all the fixings, slad bar, pumpkin dessert Palouse Wednesday, Nov. 15 Turkey dinner, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cooked vegetables, roll, pie Pullman Friday, Nov. 11 Veteran’s Day, Closed Tuesday, Nov. 14 Chef salad with tomato, ham, turkey, cucumber; cheese, and hard boiled egg, homemade roll, cookies Uniontown Wednesday, N...
COLFAX — This year’s Colfax High School Fall Musical is ‘Oklahoma!’ and runs next week starting Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Showtimes after opening night are Friday, Nov. 17, through Monday, Nov. 20, with all show times at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 a.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 9:30 a.m. with limited seating. Director Cary Cammack said that the choice of ‘Oklahoma!’ this year was to recruit boys to join the musical. He noted that the musical was Roger and Hammerstein’s first big show to put them on the Broadway stage. “We have a yo...
PULLMAN — American Legion Maynard-Price Post 52 in Pullman and the Pullman Cemetery Committee are raising funds to construct a dedicated space to honor all veterans on Fairmont Road next to the cemetery. Post member Ted Weatherly said that the initiative started in 2015 when a group of five American legion members came together as a committee to look into the possibility of getting a veterans memorial at Pullman cemetery. Weatherly said the group would find a piece of land that was 2.8 acres, triangular and looked great as the site for the m...
COLFAX - The Colfax FFA Agricultural Sales team took third place at Nationals last week, Thursday, Nov. 2. The four FFA members, Cadence Monson, Derek Repp Darin Repp, and Karly Wigen, won the Washington FFA Ag Sales contest in May of 2023 before representing the State of Washington at the National level. FFA Advisor Michael Heitstuman said that this year, the sales team was given Pioneer hybrid seed as their national sales product to sell. Through active questioning and sales techniques, team...
Despite having a senior granddaughter from Genesee and a senior great-niece from Colfax both competing in post-season volleyball, this rainy Wednesday morning should allow me time to conclude my remarks started in the October 6th Gazette edition regarding the Gazette’s remarkable achievement, despite being without the services of a guy that both the Wilmont and Forgey Gazette’s had and who to me is a Colfax legend. My great old time friend Jack McBride (wrestling coach par excellence, along with Richard Felber, Ed Olson, and several others Col...
For decades, the underlying assumption of Washington’s environmental policy has been that politicians must dictate the rules to the public, creating regulations that force citizens to change. That top-down mindset is borne of the 1970s. Today, there are new options that are more effective, less harsh, and less expensive. The sharp contrast between the old, coercive approach and new, collaborative stewardship is being played out right now in Washington’s energy policy. To achieve Washington’s CO2...
While the last veterans who survived the “surprise” Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are dwindling rapidly, we cannot let their sacrifices and the memories of that horrific day which propelled America into World War II fade into history. On December 7, 1941, 350 Japanese aircraft descended on Honolulu’s military installations in two shocking waves. More than 2,400 Americans were killed, and 21 ships were sunk or damaged. Our soldiers, sailors and pilots who fought and won WWII are now 90 or ol...
COLFAX — In the regular commissioners meeting on Monday, Nov. 6, commissioners awarded a bid for a county-wide guard rail project to Frank Gurney, Inc. for $821,334.70. The Public Works Department opened bids for the million-dollar project to improve guardrails around the county in various locations using federal safety funds on Monday, Oct. 30. Public Works Director Mark Storey told commissioners that the safety grant project is administered through the Department of Transportation. “We’re recommending the board award it to Frank Gurne...
GARFIELD –– Travis Gaines, 20, was arrested and booked into the Whitman County Jail on Sunday, Nov. 5, following a dispatch call of gunshots heard in town. Gaines was charged with two counts of assault in the first degree, three counts of reckless endangerment, three counts of aiming and discharging a firearm and one count of concealed pistol violation. Reports say Joe Handley, Garfield Police Department Marshal, was called by a local apartment manager, Shon Clark. Clark reportedly told Handley there was a party at the “Collier” apartment and a...
